Physician Star Rating Description

Each patient's experience at our practice is important to us. As we strive to
provide the highest level of care, we value feedback on all aspects of the patient experience. This
MedicalGPS patient experience survey measures patient satisfaction from the time the appointment was
made to the time the patient spent with the provider.

Visit Preparation: Measures how courteous, respectful and friendly the clinical
staff was during the patient's visit.

Provider Listened: Measures how carefully the provider listens to the needs of each and every patient.

Office Wait Time: Measures how satisfied the patient was with wait time during
their visit.

Patient Recommendation: Measures how likely the patient is to recommend this
practice to family and friends.

Robert S Farivar, MD

Dr. Robert Farivar is an accomplished, fellowship-trained cardiothoracic surgeon specializing in adult cardiac surgery. He serves as the Medical Director of Cardiovascular Surgery for the following Miami-Dade County hospitals: Aventura Hospital and Medical Center, Kendall Regional Medical Center and Mercy Hospital. His expertise is in minimally invasive valve surgery, including aortic and mitral valve repair and replacement. He is also skilled in cardiac surgery, reoperative surgery, octogenarian surgery and bloodless cardiac surgery.

Prior to joining Florida Heart and Vascular Care, Dr. Farivar led a team of surgeons at Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. He was the first surgeon in the United States to perform transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR). Since then, he has gone on to publish numerous papers and lecture on the procedure. He also has expertise in transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR.

Dr. Farivar received his bachelor’s degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University before earning his medical and doctoral degrees in pathology from Boston University School of Medicine. He went on to complete his fellowship in general and cardiac surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in 2006. Dr. Farivar served as Chief Resident the final year of his general surgery residency prior to completing his cardiothoracic surgery residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, where he also served as Chief Resident his final year.

Committed to excellence in the field of cardiac surgery, Dr. Farivar belongs to a number of professional societies including the Twenty-first Century Cardiac Surgical Society and Society of Thoracic Surgeons and serves as a reviewer for numerous professional journals. He has been published in The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, and The American Journal of Cardiology.